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By Darren J. N. Middleton. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-86554-624-X. Pp. xix + 256. $39.95.

Many modern authors are currently being reassessed and reinterpreted in the light of postmodern literary criticism. Darren J. N Middleton's illuminating book on the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis belongs to this current trend. To the reader unfamiliar with his work, Kazantzakis can be a linguistic minefield: his language has a fluidity and demoticism often scorned ...